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Our Mission:

Founded by former Mountain Bike World Champion Hans Rey, Wheels 4 Life provides bikes for people in developing countries in need of transportation to get to work or to school, including health care workers.

Latest News:

Wheels 4 Life would like to wish you all happiness and peace for this festive season and thank you very much for your support both past and present. We don’t like to bombard our supporters with monthly emails, but we would like to update you on some of our news for 2014.

Wheels 4 Life has had another full and successful year. Although we do give bicycles to people in great need of transportation in developing countries globally, this year we have been focusing mainly on Africa, specifically Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.

In January we completed our new film “Riding Out of Poverty” and this became available in January. On October 3rd we held the second Wheels 4 Life Gala at ...

Events & Promotions:

Long time Wheels 4 Life supporter and bicycle components manufacturer crankbrothers is participating in 2015 in the Laguna Beach Artwalk which happens on the first thursday of every month. Different bicycle related artists, photographers and painters will showcase and sell their artwork at the crankbrothers Outlet Shop at the headquarters in downtown Laguna Beach. Proceeds of each artpiece sold will be donated to Wheels 4 Life. Come join the exhibition and hospitality starting March 5th from 6 - 9pm at 580 Broadway, Laguna Beach, CA

The Wheels 4 Life Story

Our Story:

For most of us bicycles are recreational equipment, but for some people a bicycle can mean survival.

A bicycle can make all the difference in a persons life. It can be the difference between having a job or not, going to school or not, seeing a doctor or not…

Wheels4Life is a non-profit organization that provides bikes for people in developing countries in need of transportation to get to work or to school, including health care workers. Wheels4life was founded by extreme biking legend and former Mountain Bike World Champion Hans Rey [hansrey.com].

Hans has been a professional athlete for 20 years, he still travels the world promoting biking and riding the unridable. He has been competing and demonstrating his talents in 60 countries, in recent years he been filming documentaries with his ‘Hans Rey Adventure Team’, combining his extreme biking skills with different cultures, always in search of something historical or mysterious.

Wheels4Life is Hans’s way of giving something back to the people he has met on his journeys; Hans remains grateful for the opportunities and career he had through the sport.

Total Bikes Delivered : 7005

(as of Mar 12, 2015)

Other Ways You Can Help

Buy The Wheels 4 Life DVD

Wheels 4 Life - The Film - A Story About Giving is now available for $10 (plus S & H). The documentary film, narrated by John McEnroe, chronicles our Wheels4Villages projects in Tanzania, over the period of 14 month.
Watch the TrailerBuy the DVD

Featured Project

Report of ARUWE bicycle project from Mulagi Sub County

Report of ARUWE bicycle project from Mulagi Sub County &nbsp; Action for Rural Women&rsquo;s Empowerment (ARUWE) is a non-profit, Non-Governmental Organization working with marginalized groups of people especially the rural ...